twice in a lifetime?

[rmd]

it's kind of weirding me out a bit.

after having not won the series in my lifetime or even my 70-something father's lifetime, the sox have now won it twice in a couple of years.

i predict some kind of sea change coming in the internal boston psyche's narrative around baseball.

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[waysofseeing.livejournal.com]

...and look poised to be the dominant team in baseball for the next five years at least. The Yankees will be a shell of their former selves next year.

The Patriots will almost certainly win the Super Bowl for the fourth time in this decade and may well be headed for the proverbial perfect season.

Boston College is headed for a premier bowl game, maybe even the championship.

Boston's self-image as a sports underdog will definitely be seeing some changes soon.

[firni.livejournal.com]

what, it's superbowl time already?

[bryant]

Shades of '86!

[bridgetminerva.livejournal.com]

twice in Aileen's life time. (almsot4)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

that userpic needs MORE NOSES.

I said this after they won in 2004

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

This is bigger than just baseball. I think it has profound implications for the nature of Boston as a city.

I think winning a series of sports championships may put Boston on its way towards shedding its perpetual self-image problems and its inferiority complex, especially as regards New York. (And I mean New York in general, not just the Yankees.)

[catness.livejournal.com]

It's like global warming, only local.

[kjc.livejournal.com]

All I want is for the fans to stop setting shit on fire and turning cars over.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I know I'm a lousy Johnny-come-lately ex-Orioles-turn-coat fan, but you should *see* by super-cute Boston Red Sox Pajama Bottoms. squueeee.

I wish I could wear them to work today.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Now, now. They're getting much better. Why, it took a whole 22 minutes after the end of last night's game for the Red Sox fans in Denver to start a bratty, petulant, utterly irrelevant "Yankees Suck!" chant.

[metagnat.livejournal.com]

Word.

-E

[bridgetminerva.livejournal.com]

awwwww geez I thought 3 was enough. back to the star trek alien guide for building aliens....

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

My eight-year-old daughter, who will tell anyone who will listen that she is not a Red Sox fan, announced a week ago that the Red Sox would win in four games. She's a very smug child this morning (especially since Mom guessed it would take five games--I didn't think Colorado would cave, surely they would win one game).

I wonder when the rally will be--if the city is clever, they'll do it during the week when most of the city can't be there.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I was *hoping* Colorado wouldn't just cave... but... sigh...

But I could see how it might change how the Red Sox fans think of their team, now. Doesn't hurt having the second biggest bankroll in MLB, either.

It was fun watching them play! Though I do with my Rockies could have at least put up a decent fight for the series. Ah well...

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

crap,I hope we don't turn into the kind of fans the Yankees have..you know,assholes

The NYPD jinxed the Yankees.

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= At the Republican National Convention in August 2004, undercover cops tried to dress up like a protest warrior (motor)biker gang. They put on Yankees jerseys and WWI-style German helmets and had sexist bumper stickers, then drove scooters into crowds. That's what lifted The Curse, and made Rudy Giuliani's favorite team lose.